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    PhilipTheBucketA to Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months ago

    Fossil discovery reveals giant worm lizard with snail-cracking jaws

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    Fossil discovery reveals giant worm lizard with snail-cracking jaws

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    An international team of researchers has discovered a new fossil worm lizard species in Tunisia. Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi is the largest known species of the Amphisbaenia group, with a skull length of over five centimeters.
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      Stop the planet I want to get off.

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